Here’s a short clip from Daybreakers in which a dude demands more blood in his coffee and before you know it, a FEEDING FRENZY breaks out!  OOH WHA-AAA AA-AA!  Sorry I don’t have more time to explain this clip or write something coherent, but I’m rushing out the door to get on a plane.  But you know who’d like this clip?  Professor Sharksworth, that’s who.

Aside from zombies, the two most overused elements in movies today are vampires and the post apocalypse.  Yet Daybreakers has them both and somehow still seems fresh.  Maybe it’s because of Willem Dafoe?  Anyway, this is the second trailer.  Basically, Willem Dafoe and Ethan Hawke are living in a future that’s kind of like the vampire Matrix where everyone’s a vampire and humans are farmed for their blood.  Willem Dafoe is one of the last surviving humans and Ethan Hawke has invented a magic potion that turns vampires back into humans.  Also, there are crossbows.  Hopefully at some point, someone will ask Willem Dafoe how he plans to beat the bats, and he’ll be like “Easy. I brought my Hawke.”

Ow, shut up, I was already leaving.

(click to enlarge – Fedor pic via MMAmania)

DAILY CIRCLE JERK LINKS:

• New thing: special nightclubs for fat people.  |FListed|
• Douchebags of the United States, classified by region. To the SoCal BroCal I would’ve added “girlfriend with hair dyed bleach blonde on top and black underneath”.  See also: “oversized skate brand hat with perfectly flat bill.” |HolyTaco|
• Hottest NBA cheerleader on each team. |BleacherReport|
• The worst MMA commercial ever. “Grab a Mickey’s and crush it on your head because you’re an idiot, aren’t you, target demographic.” |CageDoctors|
• Six characters who show up in every zombie movie. |Cracked|
• Attack of the Show presents: Slasher School. |G4|
• Sexy Halloween costumes – a link I’m including solely because it includes a girl dressed as Anne Frank kissing a guy dressed as a suicide bomber.  |HeebMagazine|
• Proof Mattel has lost their minds: Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken.  No, really. |ToplessRobot|

And, last but not least, WILLEM DAFOE SHOOTING ETHAN HAWKE WITH A CROSSBOW!

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Below you can watch the newest trailer for The Fantastic Mr. Fox, the movie Wes Anderson email-directed, featuring voice work by handsome father figures George Clooney and Bill Murray, plus Meryl Streep, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, and others.  It looks like they’ve given this new trailer the full Wes Anderson treatment, by which I mean it has big yellow text and Rolling Stones songs.  It’s not 3D or CG… and I like that.  Not to mention, Willem Dafoe as a rat?  He was born to play this role.

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Warner Bros just released a second batch of character banners (first batch here) for the Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are.  Prepare for another month of torture, because that’s how long it’s going to be until this comes out.  This batch includes Alexander (voiced by Paul Dano), Douglas (Chris Cooper), Ira (Forest Whitaker), and Bull (Michael Berry Jr.).

The chicken guy is easily my favorite.  It’s funny because chickens don’t have ears, you see.  Also, I suspect “Ira” was originally supposed to be called “The Bear Jew” until Tarantino and Eli Roth stole it.  And is it just me, or does Alexander kind of look like Willem Dafoe?  They should’ve just made one of the Wild Things Willem Dafoe.  That would be a way better book.  “My mom was being mean and sent me to bed with no dinner, but I showed her, I snuck out the window and partied with Willem Dafoe.” The moral of the story would be that parents just don’t understand. But Willem Dafoe does.

(trailer below, to refresh your memory)

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